The Girls from Corona del Mar - Rufi Thorpe Audiobook

Written by Rufi Thorpe
Read by Rebecca Lowman
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: July 8, 2014
Duration: 09:36:53

The Girls from Corona del Mar is a fiercely beautiful novel about how these bonds, challenged by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance, either break or endure.

Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at fifteen, and younger brothers she loves but can’t quite be good to, Lorrie Ann is luminous, surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best friend’s life. Then a sudden loss catapults Lorrie Ann into tragedy: things fall apart, and then fall further—and there is nothing Mia can do to help. And as good, brave, fair Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia begins to question just who this woman is, and what that question means about them both.

A staggeringly honest, deeply felt novel of family, motherhood, loyalty, and the myth of the perfect friendship, The Girls from Corona del Mar asks just how well we know those we love, what we owe our children, and who we are without our friends.

“Rebecca Lowman portrays both characters with equal skill. Mia thinks of her best friend, Lorrie Ann, as more than an ordinary girl: In Mia’s eyes, Lorrie Ann is beautiful and pure. Lowman’s steady pace emphasizes Mia’s strong identity, but moments of obvious jealousy come through. When Lorrie Ann’s life takes a turn for the worse, Lowman deftly dramatizes Mia’s attempts to mask her shock and dismay at her friend’s life choices. Lowman provides a beautiful narration as two young women come of age.”—AudioFile